... yILE MIERCHANT TA YLORS' COMPANY AND SCHOOL. THIE COMPANY ANY ONE who considers how powerless to achieve any common *,1 individuals are until knit together into societies, will understand 'from the time whereof there is no memory the traders of LonIon have grouped themselves according to their different crafts iitl) guilds or companies. It is of the history of one of these, nAllmely, the ...

... f tom a r et a, VA NDERDECXZEN TIsE visitor to can always calculate upon imbibing a two-fold tonic. Firstly, there is the air, which, though blowing warm or cold, according to the quarter from whence it comes, is always invigorating and conducive to appetite; and, secondly, there is the corrective to a course of anti-gambling literature that is to be obtained on the breezy heath. It is the ...

... He'd C> R SURAL OTES rwi~ - - FREE TRADE FARMERS.-Modern political economy had its birthplace north of the Tweed, and the countrymen of Hume and Adam Smith show signs of being even more stirred to wrath by the revival of Protectionist theory than are their brethren of the south. At more than one farmers' club in Scotland the remedy of Fair Trade has been repudiated, while a well-known ...

... ?? -it X a X: W W : DOEl C3 W X-X 8 Mm E: a X: a C31 MM MO >- V1S1 -C T AC C03:: O:LE I C C . ._0 3w 3co (L the manufacturing world are few and. of rare ROV A Lozier Manufacturing Company, however, occrtrcr e ption to the usual prosaic life of industrial a L sir! , am a small and hasty beginning, through the enterhi -; Il-essiveness of H. A. Lozier, this establish- icldos:rY ?? the limits of ...

... Irabe fil miterav Q1ijiua WImh all the many opinions and reports which reach us of the burning questions-political and otherwise-in the Far East, it is interesting to note a decided forward step in the opening up of further trade and commerce in the Western Provinces of China, and along the banks of the Upper Yangtse River, with its gorges and rapids, which hitherto have been considered such ...

... I Joint = ??tofh ?? ' CIRCUMSIANCES-Says Mr. IMartin A. S. Hume, in his prefiace to The Year After the Armada (T. Fisher Unwin)- HaIae led me to follow the course of modern history into somewhat unfrequetnted chamwrels, and in pursuit of my main object it is orcasionally my good fortune to come across a piece of unused or unlamiliar con- temporary' information-some faded manuscript or ...

... 8tgl)iphiial &omerIllCc CONCERINING the trade of ancient Alexandria nothing shall be said here. A wile gulf of decadence and decay separates the ancient city of the Ptolemies from its modern narmesake. When the French invaded Egypt in 1798 Alexandria consisted merely of a congerics of Arab huts, containing, according to Denon's calculation, 9,0O0 persons, according to that of Savary only 6,ooo ...

... THE LON DON STOCK EXCHANGE-W DfHAWN F ELL-KNOWN FACES 7ROM LIFE BY LOCKHART BOGLE IN THE CONSOL MARKET TRlE CONSOL MALRKETE IT is a fact not generally known, that the two great institutions which are opposite one another in Bartholomew Lane, the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange, stand in the relation of parent and child. The Bank created Bank Stock, and Bank Stock created dealers, who ...

... THE OLD CLOTHES MARKFT CAMP FIELD, MANCHESTER THE Old Clothes Market, or ' Rag Fair, as it is sol. times called, which is held every Monday and a on Camp Field, in Manchester, is a singularly interi scene, crowded with curious features, which stw Y illustrate the humblest phases of industrial life in -great northeri ncity. In dress, manners, and spce. people who frequent that Rag Fair, ...

... MONE Y TO LEND MAODERN life involves a highly complicated struggle, in which the proportionof prizes to competitors is ever ?? less, and in which wealth is the most important aid. In this struggle the rule is not, as in the primal one for physical life, the survival of the fittest, but the survival of the most cunning. As it proceeds with constantly increasing severity, those beasts of prey ...

... Re Bartiall OF Mr. Du Maurier's new book it is not easy to say very much in the way of criticism. The author of Trilby had a style which has an undeniable charm until it becomes monotonous, and his books they are for those who appreciate-those who cannot appre- ciate their sentiment and their delicate, scarcely veiled autobio- graphical reminiscences had better leave them severely alone. ...

... MESS'RS. HALLIE TT' .1ZX/) COLQCL'AOtUN WE are now practically enpagged w\ith the French on a railway-race for the tradc of South-Western China. Such is tiw keynote of the Report on the Railsay Connection of Burma and Clhitta,' y Messrs. A. R. Colquihoun and Holt S. IHallett (Allen, Scott, and Co., llottvcri Street). Our recent annexation of Uppei Burma and the French annexation of Tonkin ...